Putin Rebuffs Bush's Pleas
To End Nuclear Aid in Iran

Updated Sept. 28, 2003 8:16 p.m. ET

President Bush ended a two-day summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a pledge that the two nations will work together to curb the nuclear arms ambitions of Iran, but no Russian promise to end the transfer of civilian nuclear technologies.

In a weekend news conference at the Camp David presidential retreat, Mr. Putin made clear that Russia's civilian assistance will go forward, despite U.S. concerns that such technologies can be put to military purposes. The rebuff underscored the difficulty Mr. Bush -- who...